A man has been bailed after a cyclist was seen carrying a knife and covered in blood by alarmed residents in Cambridge.

Cambridgeshire police received several 999 calls on Sunday from terrified residents who spotted a man bloodied and holding a knife as he rode a bike through the city streets.

Paramedics were also needed after a child on a bike was knocked over outside the Green Dragon pub in Water Street.

A spokesman for the East of England Ambulance Service said paramedics were called at 6.25pm on Sunday and treated an 8-year-old boy who suffered minor injuries.

:: A 29-year-old man from Cambridge was arrested on suspicion of criminal damage, affray and possession of an offensive weapon and has now been bailed to return to Parkside police station on September 1.